In the nation’s driest state, water emerged as a uniting issue among lawmakers and conservation groups during the state’s legislative session. This year saw a deluge of water conservation bills, from retiring water rights to septic tank removal and mitigating pit lakes to revisions for outdated water laws. While Nevada received some much-needed relief from […]
The Owyhee Combined School celebrated its prom in early May. The gym was filled with tables, floral decorations and teenagers dancing. The gym looked like any high school gym, but the hallways and classrooms told a different story. The school is in dire need of repair. “Aesthetically, it’s really beautiful. It’s a 1950s Art Deco, but don’t […]
The Owyhee Combined School celebrated its prom in early May. The gym was filled with tables, floral decorations and teenagers dancing. The gym looked like any high school gym, but the hallways and classrooms told a different story. The school is in dire need of repair. “Aesthetically, it’s really beautiful. It’s a 1950s Art Deco, but don’t […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Built in the 1960′s, the foundation of Windsor Park in North Las Vegas started to sink in the 1980′s, and in the early 1990′s, the neighborhood was deemed unsafe. For decades since, the 90 families who remain in Windsor Park have been left with unstable grounds, unkept lots, and an […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – FOX5 continues our coverage of a North Las Vegas neighborhood literally sinking into the ground. Neighbors in Windsor Park are demanding a lifeline as homes there are slowly swallowed by unstable earth. Now, one lawmaker wants to give them one and is behind Senate Bill 450, which would allocate tens […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) – A measure to put up $30 million in state and city funds won initial backing Thursday from Nevada state lawmakers to help homeowners move from a once-segregated North Las Vegas neighborhood where geologic features made homes crack, sink and sometimes become unsafe. Democratic state Sen. Dina Neal, the bill sponsor, […]
This story has been translated to Spanish. You can read it here. Owyhee Combined School Vice Principal Lynn Manning-John stood on the Nevada Capitol lawn Thursday in front of her students — her “babies” — from the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northeastern Nevada, a community she grew up in and returned to after attending an […]
Esta nota fue traducida al español y editada a partir de una versión en inglés. La Subdirectora de la Escuela Combinada Owyhee, Lynn Manning-John, estuvo frente al Capitolio de Nevada el jueves junto con sus estudiantes de la Reservación Indígena Duck Valley en el noreste de Nevada, una comunidad en la que ella creció. “De Owyhee […]
School ages near toxic plumes as Nevada tribe calls for help. CARSON CITY — Cracked windows, a bat colony in the ceiling, spotty heating and close proximity to hazardous contaminants in a long-dilapidated school brought over 100 tribal members to the Nevada Legislature on Thursday, where they said longstanding funding pleas for a new school […]
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) – A measure to put up $30 million in state and city funds won initial backing Thursday from Nevada state lawmakers to help homeowners move from a once-segregated North Las Vegas neighborhood where geologic features made homes crack, sink and sometimes become unsafe. Democratic state Sen. Dina Neal, the bill sponsor, […]
